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Hasidic jazz. Kabbalistic quilting. Love songs from the Holocaust. Bossa nova blended with Russian klezmer music. When you put Aaron Kula in charge, don't expect the usual Jewish-themed program. "It's weird, in a good way," acknowledges Kula, artistic director of the eight-day program known as Kultur Festival, which will begin Saturday at Florida Atlantic University. "This is not just a museum festival. The best festivals center around music, theater, film, dance — the fine arts and performing arts." The fourth annual festival will showcase the many types of films, music, books and plays in the Wimberly Library at the Boca Raton university. Kula draws...

When Marvin Hamlisch auditioned for the Juilliard School of Music, he played not Chopin or Mozart but the American folk standard "Goodnight, Irene," a choice that could have had lamentable results for any other prospective student.But Hamlisch...

It's a kitchen degreaser. It's a window cleaner. It kills athlete's foot. Oh, and you can drink it.
Sounds like the old "Saturday Night Live" gag for Shimmer, the faux floor polish plugged by Gilda Radner. But the elixir is real. It has been...